Each book is a collection of 180 class activities that can be used as warm-ups, homework, or extra credit. I plan to use most of them as warm-ups, but I think some of them will be good full-lesson assignments on their own.

Here is a sample from the Spelling & Grammar book:

Where in the Whirled?

In the next five minutes, brainstorm as many words as you can that contain the letters, w, h, and e.

What is the longest word you came up with? How many words did you think of that contain w, h, and e, but don’t begin with any of those letters?

This series is published by the makers of SparkNotes. They also have vocabulary, test prep, and math books.

I started teaching apostrophes to my ninth graders today. I think links to these blogs have made the rounds, but I wanted to mention Apostrophe Abuse and Apostrophe Catastrophes as good resources. You can download my student instructions for an apostrophe project in both Rich Text and PDF format.